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70 Cards in this Set
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"I see pleasures about me, so much more I feel torment within me…For only in destroying I find ease,"
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Satan 119-129 (Paradise Lost)
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"The serpent sleeping, in whose mazy folds to hide me, and the dark intent I bring."
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Satan 161-162 (Paradise Lost)
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"For solitude sometimes is best society, and short retirement urges sweet return."
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Adam 249-250 (Paradise Lost)
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"His violence thou fearst not, being such, as we, not capable of death or pain, can either not recieve, or can repel."
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Eve 282-284 (Paradise Lost)
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"From his own evil, and for the time remained stupidly good, of enmity disarmed, of guile, of hate, of envy, of revenge: But the hot hell that always in him burns,"
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465-467 (Paradise Lost)
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"What may this mean? Language of man pronounced by tongue of brute, and human sense expressed?"
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Eve 553-554 (Paradise Lost)
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"Queen of the universe, do not believe those rigid threats of death; ye shall not die: How should ye? By the fruit? It gives you life to knowledge. By the Threatener? Look on me, me who have touched and tasted yet both live and life more perfect have attained than fate meant me, by venturing higher than my lot."
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Satan 684-690 (Paradise Lost)
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"She plucked, she ate: Earth felt the wound, and nature from her seat sighing through all her works gave signs of woe, that all was lost."
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781-784 (Paradise Lost)
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"Confirmed then I resolve, Adam shall share with me in bliss or woe."
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Eve 830-831(Paradise Lost)
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"From his slack hand the garland wreathed for Eve down dropped, and all the faded roses shed:"
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892-893 (Paradise Lost)
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"Bone of my bone thou art, and from thy state mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe."
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Adam 915-916 (Paradise Lost)
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"Our state cannot be severed, we are one, one flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself."
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Adam 958-959 (Paradise Lost)
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“Empress of this fair world, resplendent Eve”
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Line 568 (Paradise Lost)
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“Thee I have missed, and thought it long, deprived thy presence, agony of love till not felt,"
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Lines 857-859 (Paradise Lost)
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“Her black lust shall make her infamous to all our neighboring kingdoms”
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Monticelso, (Act III Scene II, Lines 7-8) (The White Devil)
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“Looks like the claw of a blackbird, first salted and then broiled in a candle”
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Flamineo, (Act III Scene I, Lines 77-80) (The White Devil)
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“turn your eyes upon this plague, the most corrupt of women”
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Lawyer, (Act III Scene II, Line 10) (The White Devil)
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“I shall be plainer with you, and paint out your follies in more natural red and white than that upon your cheek”
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Monticelso, (Act III Scene II, Lines 52-54) (The White Devil)
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“what goodly fruit she seems”
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Monticelso (Act III Scene II, Line 64) (The White Devil)
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“After your goodly and vainglorious banquet, I’ll give you a choke-pear”
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Monticelso (Act III Scene II, Lines 233-234) (The White Devil)
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“Were there a second paradise to lose this devil would betray it,”
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Monticelso (Act III Scene II, Lines 70-71) (The White Devil)
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“If the devil did ever take good shape, behold his picture”
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Monticelso (Act III Scene II, Line 218) (The White Devil)
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“You know what whore is: next the devil, Adult’ry, enters the devil, Murder”
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Monticelso (Act III Scene II, Lines 108-109) (The White Devil)
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“my defense of force, like Perseus, must personate masculine virtue… I scorn to hold my life at yours or any man’s entreaty, sir”
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Vittoria (Act III Scene II, Lines 136-140) (The White Devil)
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‘a rape! You have ravished justice, forced her to do your pleasure”
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Vittoria (Act III Scene II, Lines 274-275) (The White Devil)
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"In this a politician imitates the devil, as the devil imitates the cannon”
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Flamineo (Act III Scene III, Lines 17-18) (The White Devil)
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“He took the crucifix between his hands, and broke a limb off”
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Marcello (Act V Scene II Lines 11-12) (The White Devil)
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"Thou shalt be forced each evening to renew it, or be hanged”
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Bracciano (Act V Scene II, Lines 77-78) (The White Devil)
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"To see what solitariness is about dying princes. As heretofore they have unpeopled towns, divorced friends and made great houses unhospitable, so now, O justice!”
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Flamineo (Act V Scene III, Lines 42-44) (The White Devil)
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“O, ‘tis a brave thing for a man to sit by himself… you’re now, my lord, i’th’ saddle”
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Flamineo (Act V Scene IV, Lines 18-21) (The White Devil)
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“Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright but, looked to near, have neither heat nor light.”
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Flamineo (Act V Scene I, Lines 42-43) (The White Devil)
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“I would have our plot be ingenious, and have it hereafter recorded for example rather than borrow example.”
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Lodovico (Act V Scene I, Lines 76-78) (The White Devil)
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“And yet me thinks this revenge is poor, because it steals upon him like a thief.”
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Francisco (Act V Scene I, Lines 80-81) (The White Devil)
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"Women are like to burs; where their affection throws them, there they’ll stick.”
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Flamineo (Act V Scene I, Lines 93-94) (The White Devil)
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“What difference is between the Duke and I? No more than between two bricks, all made of one clay. Only’t may be one is placed on the top of a turret, the other in the bottom of a well by mere chance.”
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Francisco (Act V Scene I, Lines 106-110) (The White Devil)
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“As ships seem very great upon the river, which show very little upon the seas, so some men i’th’ court seem Colossuses in a chamber who, if they came into the field, would appear pitiful pigmies.”
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Francisco (Act V Scene I, Lines 120-124) (The White Devil)
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“The Duke says he will give you pension: that’s but bare promises; get it under his hand.”
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Flamineo (Act V Scene I, Lines 147-148) (The White Devil)
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“Do you think that she’s like a walnut tree? Must she be cudgeled ere she bear good fruit?”
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Flamineo (Act V Scene I, Lines 200-201) (The White Devil)
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“I ne’er loved my complexion till now, ‘cause I may boldly say without a blush, I love you.”
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Zanche (Act V Scene I, 222-223) (The White Devil)
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“At your better leisure I’ll tell you things shall startle your blood.”
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Zanche (Act V Scene I, Line 237) (The White Devil)
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“If they at least are his created or to spite us more,”
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Satan, Lines 146-147 (Paradise Lost)
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“when knaves come to preferment they rise [aside] as gallowses are raised i’th’ Low Countries, [aloud] one upon another’s shoulders.”
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Flamineo, (Act II Scene I, Lines 318-320) (The White Devil)
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“lets not talk on thunder”
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Francisco (Act II Scene I, Line 63) (The White Devil)
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“Sky loured, and muttering thunder, some sad drops wept at completing of the mortal Sin.”
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1002-1003 (Paradise Lost)
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“Both flowers and weeds spring, when the sun is warm, and great men do great good, or else great harm.”
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Conjurer (Act II Scene II, Lines 56-57) (The White Devil)
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“Search my wound deeper, tent it with the steel that made it.”
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Flamineo, (Act V Scene VI, Line 240) (The White Devil)
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“Women are like cursed dogs, civility keeps them tied all daytime, but they are let loose at midnight; then they do most good or most mischief”
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Flamineo (Act I Scene II, Lines 208-210) (The White Devil)
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"Earthquakes leave behind where they have tyrannized, iron lead, or stone, but woe to ruin, violent lust leaves none."
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Cornelia (Act I Scene II, Lines 228-230) (The White Devil)
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"When you awake from this lascivious dream, repentance then will follow."
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Monticelso (Act II Scene I, Lines 34-35) (The White Devil)
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“Let guilty men remember their black deeds do lean on crutches made of slender reeds."
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Giovanni, (Act V Scene VI, Lines 302-305) (The White Devil)
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"O Me! this place is hell."
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Vittoria (Act V Scene III, Line 187) (The White Devil)
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"Satan takes on something of the character of the tormented voyeur"
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Kermode (CC) (Paradise Lost)
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"Alienation from God naturally to dislike of his gifts."
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Lovelock (CC) (Paradise Lost)
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"Satan carries hell with him... potentially any free being carries it in himself... hell is made by fallen angels and by fallen men after them."
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Lovelock (CC) (Paradise Lost)
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"The mind is its own place, and in itself / can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven."
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Satan (CC) (Paradise Lost Book I)
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"He was a true poet and of the devil's party without knowing it."
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Blake (CC) (Paradise Lost)
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"He makes words tell as pictures."
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Hazlitt (CC) (Paradise Lost)
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"She if the wife but she is still as much as ever the mistress of Adam."
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Hazlitt (CC) (Paradise Lost)
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"Satan seems to speak for freedom but from an autocratic viewpoint."
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Armando Iannucci (CC) (Paradise Lost)
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"Life to him would be death to me."
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Keats (CC) (Paradise Lost)
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"Eve is subjected to male surveillance throughout - from God, Adam and Satan and tht she is therefore objectified and judged on appearances, which renders her status as inferior."
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(CC) (Paradise Lost)
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"More than an oppressed victim... She is active, 'bold and adventurous' whilst Adam is 'domestic' and 'mild'... she breaks all restrictions and bans and so asserts independence."
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(CC) (Paradise Lost)
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"Patriarchal poetry"
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Gertrude Stein (CC) (Paradise Lost)
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"Milton's Eve falls for exactly the same reason that Satan does: because she wants to be 'as Gods' and because, like him, she is secretly dissatisfied with her place, secretly preoccupied with questions of 'equality'."
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Gilbert and Guber (CC) (Paradise Lost)
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"he uses classical literature to elevate his style and render his epic more sophisticated. Similarly, Webster, a 'literary magpie', adapts a well known story about Vittoria Accoromboni and also adapts many lines drawn from other dramas and poems."
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(CC) (Paradise Lost)
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"a type of mind so defective in sanity of vision, so poor in humour, so remote from healthful nature, so out of touch with genial reality."
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William Watson (CC) (The White Devil)
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"in Webster there is no deeper purpose than to make our flesh creep."
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Ian Jack (CC) (The White Devil)
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"Webster's plays are poetical masterpieces but unactable,"
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(CC) (The White Devil)
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"A playwright like Webster who excelled in scenes of stark mental and physical anguish was not likely to please."
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(CC) (The White Devil)
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"Webster believed his play shows 'a true imitation of life'."
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(CC) (The White Devil)
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